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What was the last decision you made?

Perhaps it was something benign like whether to make tea or coffee?

Perhaps it was something huge like whether ...

Here's an idea for understanding cause and effect in the chaotic world of back pain.

Imagine you're with someone in a space with obstacles. A gym, a ...

A common conception of injuries such as back pain is that there are exercises or stretches that can be done to help stimulate or speed up recovery.

T...

We all know the importance of keeping active in the fight against back pain.

Regular exercise should keep up healthy, not just preventing mechanical ...

Toby was treating a patient recently who he has known on and off for a few years. The patient works in construction, nowadays supervising projects, no...

Back pain is a chaotic battlefield, and while our strategy at BackPain.online is always to help people get better, there are a variety of tactics avai...

Let’s face it, most people take an absence of back pain for granted. It’s only when pain starts to develop that they notice how it impacts them! 

All...

Back pain is a huge topic that affects many people.

At one end of the spectrum, there are minor irritations such as a pulled muscle. At the other end...

A recent publication from some of the world's foremost back pain experts included 10 facts for everyone to know. There's a snazzy infographic below......

All too often in clinic, Graeme and Toby hear patients arrive with a diagnosis for their low back pain that has been given to them by someone else.

L...

Now, here's a good question: "does education fix people?"

On the surface, you'd think, "how can it?"

Well, the truth as we know it is that education...

Graeme and Toby have worked as private osteopaths for many years.

At the end of a busy Saturday morning a few years ago, they talked about just how m...